Let's Talk Annotations

[tiwane]

@zabdiel

For instance tracks, scat, feeding signs all show that the animal was alive when they were created whereas a feather could have been shed from a living bird or be as a result of a bird being killed. I don’t know that much about snakes so not sure if a shed snake skin would clearly be from a living snake.

Then I would say you should choose Cannot Be Determined or leave it blank.

@zabdiel

How about an hornet with a damaged wing? I’m fairly sure it couldn’t fly (it attempted to take off when I moved it off a path) so I’m fairly sure it couldn’t survive, but I’ve no idea how long it would survive for as the injury itself wasn’t fatal.

Personally I’d choose Alive unless it had a ghastly clearly fatal injury.

@bazwal

When the Alive or Dead annotation was first added, it was shown at the bottom (as in your screenshot) - but it has since been moved to the middle. Is this a deliberate change? Given that it will be far less comonly used than the other two, it seems preferable to keep it at the bottom.

As far as I know it’s not a deliberate change. I’m fine with keeping it at the bottom, but I’m not convinced it would make a significant difference.